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Ex's 2010 Build
Jan 4 2010, 7:47 am
By: Excalibur  

Jan 8 2010, 10:53 pm Excalibur Post #21

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p4 runs at 8 GHz. Tell me that can't handle SC2.
Yeah, if you happen to have all the tools for fucking liquid helium cooling around, not to mention liquid helium. :P




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Jan 10 2010, 1:07 am Excalibur Post #22

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Motherboard has a bad channel. Going to have to send it back. :(




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Jan 10 2010, 1:23 am CecilSunkure Post #23



Oh no, another delay.. What exactly is wrong with the channel, and, what do you mean by channel ;3



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Jan 10 2010, 9:33 am Excalibur Post #24

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The motherboard is supposed to support 6 slots of RAM resulting in 2 3 channel configurations. 2 of the slots on channel B are dead, no matter what stick of RAM goes in them, the motherboard won't recognize them.




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Jan 29 2010, 8:14 am Excalibur Post #25

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Okay, the topic kind of sunk for awhile, so heres a nice big update:

The ASRock X58 Open Box that I ordered had a dead memory channel and had to be sent back. I had to wait another week for work to pay me, and then wait for checks to clear, and then wait for funds to transfer to paypal. All of these things take days and it really pisses me off that a company can't transfer funds or verify an order in less than two to three BUSINESS DAYS so you know every time a weekend rolls along I get fucked.

Anyway, after all was said and done, I ordered the following:
DFI LP DK X58 T3eH6 (Steal for 140$ shipped.)
Thermloab BARAM (Again, good price at 53$ shipped.)
Zalman VF1000 (Fucking 42$ shipped. Cocknipples.)
Tuniq TX-2 compound (Probably will use my MX-2 but I'm running out. 6$ shipped.)

What's that? Why the Zalman? Oh because while tightening the screws on my HD4870 Dark Knight, one of them decided to FUCKING SPLIT IN HALF! The cooler was loose, the screws could have been tighter, and trying to tighten them resulting in the head snapping in half. Fucking joy. So I needed to order a replacement GPU cooler, and thus I did. However I'll have to make due with the loose Dark Knight cooler for the first few days of my build due to just having the screw snapping happen not ten minutes ago.

Nearly all of this could've been avoided if:
Newegg tested 3 memory channels on a fucking triple channel board.
The Intel stock cooler wasn't so terrible at its job.
The Dark Knight cooler had been tightened properly when made.

And so with an raging anger burning like a thousand suns, I update this topic.




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Jan 31 2010, 12:25 pm Excalibur Post #26

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The machine is up and running. Somehow the old Win7 install with the ASRock mobo decided to work when booted in safe mode, because Win7 refuses to boot off my flash drive, used my friends last time but he wasn't around. Anyway, it isn't perfect, I need to get some open corner CPU fans so I can use the default fan clips rather than zip ties for my CPU cooler, the Zalman GPU cooler will be here this week, and I've already got my 920 stable @ 4GHz with HT on. I could push higher, but I'm satisfied.




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Jan 31 2010, 9:30 pm Vrael Post #27



So what're the final stats we're lookin at here? And total price?



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Jan 31 2010, 10:36 pm Excalibur Post #28

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Changes in blue.
Name: Descent v1
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Motherboard: DFI LP DK X58 T3eH6
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 D0 w/Thermolab BARAM

Case: CM RC690 v1 with 4x 120mm fans and 1x 140mm.
RAM: 3x2GB OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600 7-7-7-24-2T
GFX: ASUS HD 4870 1GB Dark Knight Edition w/Zalman VF1000

Motherboard: DFI LP DK X58 T3eH6
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 D0 w/Thermolab BARAM
Case: CM RC690 v1 with 4x 120mm fans and 1x 140mm.
RAM: 3x2GB OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600 7-7-7-24-2T
GFX: ASUS HD 4870 1GB Dark Knight Edition w/Zalman VF1000
Sound: Creative Audigy ZS
PSU: Seasonic 500w
Drives: DVD ROM, DVD/CD-RW Burner

Monitor: HannsG 23.6" @ 1920x1080.
Speakers: Dell 2.1 speaker system.
Mouse: Dell Optical USB Mouse
Keyboard: Dell USB Keyboard

Motherboard: DFI LP DK X58 T3eH6 - 140$ = 140$
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 D0 w/Thermolab BARAM 230 + 53$ = 283$
RAM: 3x2GB OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600 7-7-7-24-2T - 149$ = 149$
GFX: ASUS HD 4870 1GB Dark Knight Edition w/Zalman VF1000 = 42$ (Just the cooler was new.)

140 + 283 + 149 + 42 = 614$ for my upgrade. I don't feel like pricing out the rest of my system and I don't remember what I paid for everything.




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